[VIDEO] On This Day - May 31, 1984: Viv Richards plays the greatest ODI innings of all time!

[Scrolln]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2PCictIL8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnPboESH2r0

IVA Richards made 189* out of the total WI score of 272. Only two other WI players
could get into double figures, both of whom were tail enders.
E Baptiste scored 26 and Holding chipped in with 12.

In reply, England couldn't even better Richards score. They bundled up for 168, with Joel Garner gathering figures of 3 for 18 in 8 overs.

Legend

 

[lestaboy]

May 31, 1984: Viv Richards hits 189 against England

The greatest innings in one-day international history according to everyone who witnessed it. Viv Richards smeared England all round Old Trafford in the first Texaco Trophy match: his 189 came off only 170 balls, with 21 fours and five sixes.

What makes the innings so great is its context: West Indies were 102 for 7 at one point, then 166 for 9. They ended up making 272 for 9, and won by 104 runs. Of the last- wicket partnership of 106, Michael Holding made 12

 

[DHONI183]

May 31, 1984: Viv Richards hits 189 against England

Please don´t add such threads. They make me feel jealous of the fact that I wasn´t born in Viv Richards´ era.....

 

[lestaboy]

Please don´t add such threads. They make me feel jealous of the fact that I wasn´t born in Viv Richards´ era.....

Hahahaha even i wasnt born aswell

never seen him play live . altho seen his video many many times

unbelievable player

 

[Fahdi]

The greatest innings in one-day international history according to everyone who witnessed it. Viv Richards smeared England all round Old Trafford in the first Texaco Trophy match: his 189 came off only 170 balls, with 21 fours and five sixes.

What makes the innings so great is its context: West Indies were 102 for 7 at one point, then 166 for 9. They ended up making 272 for 9, and won by 104 runs. Of the last- wicket partnership of 106, Michael Holding made 12

Are u kidding me?!?!!

 

[lestaboy]

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Are u kidding me?!?!!

HE is the real deal thats Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards

 

[robelinda]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZOenyArzrU

 

[lestaboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZOenyArzrU

SUPERB rob always like your video on youtube

you are a diamond

 

[Robert]

I remember it clearly.

Bob Willis (who emerged relatively intact from the mauling) said - "He has twice the time to play his shots as any other batter, so we should be able to bowl at him off eleven yards."

Every over, it seemed that Richards would hit three boundaries in three balls, then pinch the strike, then Holding would block the fifth and sixth balls.

On and on it went.

I hadn't seen batting like that before. I had seen the jaw-jutting obduracy of Border, and the flashing fifties of Kapil, and Botham smearing Lillee for six with his eyes shut, but not the kind of mechanised demolition job that Viv pulled that day.

 

[lestaboy]

I remember it clearly.

Bob Willis (who emerged relatively intact from the mauling) said - "He has twice the time to play his shots as any other batter, so we should be able to bowl at him off eleven yards."

Every over, it seemed that Richards would hit three boundaries in three balls, then pinch the strike, then Holding would block the fifth and sixth balls.

On and on it went.

I hadn't seen batting like that before. I had seen the jaw-jutting obduracy of Border, and the flashing fifties of Kapil, and Botham smearing Lillee for six with his eyes shut, but not the kind of mechanised demolition job that Viv pulled that day.

HE was something special and rare

the batters of his clibre are born once in decade

he is the real master blaster

 

[MenInG]

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[Hitman]

I wish I was born in Viv's time.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Except that the greatest ODI inning ever was played a year earlier in the biggest stage at the 1983 world cup by the legendary Kapil Dev when he smashed 175 after coming in at a 17/5 situation

 

[sweep_shot]

Didn't get to watch it live as I wasn't born yet.

Looks like a great knock.

 

[moghul]

Many great batsmen came before and after him, but there never be another king Richards.

 

[Ab Fan]

It must be a honour to watch Viv bat. I think of him as a player who possessed the genius of ABD and at the same time the swagger of Pietersen. A freak cricketer truly.

 

[therealAB]

Except that the greatest ODI inning ever was played a year earlier in the biggest stage at the 1983 world cup by the legendary Kapil Dev when he smashed 175 after coming in at a 17/5 situation

Vs Zimbabwe

 

[Bhaijaan]

Vs Zimbabwe

From 17/5, against white Zimbabwean team, in world cup

 

[Robert]

It must be a honour to watch Viv bat. I think of him as a player who possessed the genius of ABD and at the same time the swagger of Pietersen. A freak cricketer truly.

He was too good for England, at least until his eyes started to go and he became easier to get out. I wish I had seen Lillee bowl at him. That really would have been two champions locking horns.

 

[MenInG]

Whenever there is a discussion about former greats who would have been a sure shot hit in T20 cricket, one name that everyone agrees on is that of West Indies legend Sir Vivian Richards. Known for his ability to destroy bowling attacks, Richards was in a league of his own at a time, when attacking batting wasn’t really a fashionable trait among batsmen.

Richards was part of the world beating Caribbean team that lifted the 1975 and 1979 World Cup trophies. Richards had in fact scored a century in the 1979 final. He retired from cricket with a strike-rate of 86.07 in Tests and above 90 in ODIs, something that was unheard of in the times he played in.

Former New Zealand cricketer and commentator Ian Smith said that Richards would have been a much sought after player in these days of T20 leagues.

“I believe Viv Richards would have made a go at cricket in any format in any decade. That’s why, I mean you look at his strike rate which was superior to anyone else’s at that time that is a T20 strike rate without even having that game in his mind,” Ian Smith said on ICC’s Cricket Inside Out.

“He would have been an absolute legend in T20 cricket. They would have paid more money than Pat Cummins, Ben Stokes and all other guys put together, to get Viv Richards in their line-up, because it would put more bums on the seats. He would have been an absolute crowd-pleaser and television rights would have gone through the roof,” Smith added.

Richards remains one of the greatest batsmen that have played the game of cricket. He in fact set the template for batsmen of the next generation who would take attacking batting to the next level.

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